Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1911 — TOMBS OF SAND. [ARTICLE]

TOMBS OF SAND.

Cape Cod’s Treacherous Shoals and the Prey They Grip. Secrets of the sands of Cape Cod are constantly being disclosed by the sea. In the many storm tides that flood the desolate beached the hulks of stanch ships \p&t along the coast on the half hundred miles of beaches between MoDomoy st Chatham and Wood End at Provlncctown are frequently exhumed from tombs of sand. Sometimes a wreck appears that baa been buried a century or more, as in the case a few years ago of the bones of the British frigate Somerset, whose timbers of oak were disclosed to view back of Provincetown, near the life saving station In Dead Men's Hollow. The Somerset was lost on Peaked Hill bars Nov. 2 or 3, 1778. Once a vessel Is gripped by the sands the process of entombing her goes on with great rapidity, the craft appearing to sink 6teadily in the yielding beach. All around the doomed vessel the sand piles up in great drifts, like snow. Every crevice of the hull is quickly filled. The sand rises in a solid barrier outside it and flows about It as the tides'flood the shelving beaches. Finally it sweeps over the wreck, and the process of entombing goes on until tbe entombed craft is covered many feet deep.—Boston Globs.